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UNITEDI 'STATES PATENT .OFFICE JACOB B. BEAM, PUNXSUTAWNEY, PENNSYLVANIA.

RADIATOR. i

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 21 1912.

Original application filed February 16, 1911, Serial No. 608,844.' Divided-and this application led Jvuly 28,

1911. `Serial No. 640,657.

To allwhom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB B. BEAM, a citizen of they United States, residing in Punxstawney, in the county of Jefferson 5 and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Radiators,.of which the following is a speciication. t

.My invention 'relates particularly to radito cool the water which circulates in the ject`of my invention is to provide a radia tor oft-his class which shall be strong'aud durable,.not liableto leak and which can'be easily repaired whel'rfor anyunusual reason any of the parts are accidentally broken.

- A further object of my invention is to so construct the' radiators that the radiator sec- 20 tions 'maybe inserted in, or removed from 'the rear portion of the radiator frame with- -out detachin "any part of the front frame or disfiguring'te front frame with fastening devices. .l p In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows a side elevation partly in section o'f a radiator embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 isa perspectlve view of one of the radiator sections employed. Fig. 3 isa detail view on an enlarged scale showinvr the manradiator frame. Fig. 4 is a view of two ra diator'. headers with parts broken awag' to show how the securing bolts are a plie The upper waterchamber A is ormed inare integral with the lower water .chamber C, The front-'frame is formed at its upper and lower ends with flan es m m `for the are adapted to connect f the upper and lower water chambers with` the water jackets of the engines. Independently removable radiator sections are employed and these are .of the same general construction as those lshown and described in my application for Patentv No. 608,944, filed February 16, 1911,

` of which this case is a division.

The lupper water chamber A is formed at its lower portion with a depressed part a a shoulder a havin he lower chamber all the rear formin opening at a2.

I tendsonly part way to the rear ofthe frame ators of the class employed in automobilesurpose hereinafter descr ed. Iipes B and 'and it has an opening 4in its rearwall c correspondingly formed with a'downwardly l projecting hollow leg F which registers with the opening c in the ower water chamber. Packing w is interposed between the walls of the headers and the walls of the water. chambers to make a tight fit and prevent vibration.

having an opening- 'lhe upper and lower radiator sections are l each formed on theirop osite sides with semi-elliptical grooves or epressions e and when the radiator sections are assembled there is formed an elliptical opening e2 between the headers of each two radiator sectlons. These openings receive securing bolts G which extend through the openings e2 and engage the rear walls of the upper and lower water chambers, in the manner indicated in Fig. 3. In this way the radiator sections are secured in the radiator frame independentl and can be separately removed or replace It will be observed that the radiator sections rest on the. bottom of the radiator framef('sce Fig. 1), the bottom of the radiator frame in this case consistingof the lower water chamber'which chamber is formed inf tegrall with the front frame of the radiator. y thus forming the up er and lower water chambers integrally with their con-r necting frame a rigid structure is obtained which will not so expand or contract as to 'affect the joints between the tubes olf the ra-v diator sections and their headers. The construction shown and described is a simple one, the rear walls of the water ychambers being' so" formed as to receive the legs of the headers sothat the latter may be readily pushed into" place,l bear against the shoulders of the water chambers and be held there by the short bolts which extend through therecesses in the side walls of the headers, the headers not being lperforated to admit such bolts., f

The top walls of the headers of the radia-v tor sections fit closely the'bottom walls of' the upper .water chamber and as the u per and. lower headers are rigidly connecte Vby u the water tubes the radiator as a 'whole is vvery rigid and strong, theupper water vChamber-being supported not only by the front and side frame, but alsov by the radiator qsections which rest on the lower'water pressed portion having a rear wall provided y -w1th "p0rts, ay lower water chamber having a reafr Wall, provided with ports,k a -front frame rigidly connecting the upper and,v

lower water chambers having an inwardly projecting ange below the bottom Wall of the upper waterchamber and above the top 'wall of the lower water' chamber; and a 'series of separately removable radiator sections, comprising lower headers lwhich rest subscribed my name.

on the top. of the lower water chamber with ytheir front walls close to thefiiangeo the .front :frame and which have portions eX- tending behind the lower water chamber vand A commnicating therewith, upper'I headers with their top walls close to the bottom wall of theupper water chamber and having their front walls arranged close tothe'flange v of the front frame and which have upwardl f projecting Iportions communicating wlt the rear portion of the'pperfwaterchamy l ber,v and vertical tubes 'rlgidly {connectmg the upper and lower headers. 21 f v In: testimony ywhereof, I

JACOB'v B. EAM.

Witnesses:

Lo'r'r D.V CRAFT, JESSE C. LONG. 

